GeForce RTX 4060 vs GeForce GTX 970
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 4060 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970 |
| 52 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce RTX 4060 . |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 4060
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce RTX 4060 | | GeForce GTX 970 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | AD104 () | vs | GM204 (GM204-200-A1) |
| Fab Process | 4 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 295 mm² | vs | 398 mm² |
| Transistors | 35,800 million | vs | 5,200 million |
| Shaders | 5888 | vs | 1664 |
| Tensor Cores | 184 | vs | none |
| Raytracing Cores | 46 | vs | none |
| Compute Units | 46 | vs | 13 |
| Core clock | 2505 MHz | vs | 1050 MHz |
| ROPs | 64 | vs | 56 |
| TMUs | 184 | vs | 104 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce RTX 4060 | | GeForce GTX 970 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 2250 MHz
18 Gbps effective | vs | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 8192 Mb | vs | 4096 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce RTX 4060 | | GeForce GTX 970 | |
|---|
| TDP | 200 watts | vs | 148 watts |
| Release Date | UNRELEASED | vs | 19 Sep 2014 |
GeForce RTX 4060
169.00 GP/s
GeForce GTX 970
58.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce RTX 4060
485.80 GT/s
GeForce GTX 970
109.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce RTX 4060
288.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 970
224.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce RTX 4060
31090.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 970
3494.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better